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Winchester Republican
Winchester, Virginia
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Merchants in Baltimore received several $100 notes from the Bank of the Valley, Romney Branch, initially suspected as counterfeit due to shrinkage from wet mail transit, but later confirmed genuine by the bank's cashier.
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We some time ago published a paragraph which stated that several one hundred dollar notes purporting to be of the Bank of the Valley, Romney Branch, were received by merchants in Baltimore and pronounced to be counterfeit. It gives us pleasure to inform the public, that those notes have since been forwarded to the Cashier of the Bank, who states that they are genuine, and supposes that the suspicion of their being counterfeit, originated in the circumstance of their having been wet in the transmission by mail, which caused them to shrink, and otherwise to injure their appearance.
Balt. Fed. Gazette.
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Baltimore
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Some Time Ago
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notes confirmed genuine; suspicion originated from damage during mail transmission
Event Details
A previous report stated that merchants in Baltimore received several $100 notes from the Bank of the Valley, Romney Branch, which were pronounced counterfeit. The notes were forwarded to the bank's cashier, who confirmed they are genuine, attributing the suspicion to shrinkage and damage from being wet in the mail.